Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone.

Marshall McLuhan

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Patrick Jones

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

Pam Brown

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

Leonardo da Vinci

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Leonardo da Vinci

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Paul Ricoeur

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

R. Buckminster Fuller

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

Publilius Syrus

Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.

Publilius Syrus

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Nelson Mandela

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Nelson Mandela

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

Frank Herbert

I am not the river I am the net.

Frank Herbert

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

George Henry Lewes

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

George Herbert

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

George Herbert

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

George Herbert

Pleasing ware is half sold.

George Herbert

His bark is worse than his bite.

Murray Rothbard

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.